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into Cnan, for five years, inatcasl of three, wh.rh was the term fixed upon its the first—that he considered the proper subject for their Lord_ ship's condemnation. ',that was the point to which the Noble and I: r ained Lord originally drew attention, and on u hich his notic_ was founded. '1 he introduction of latiourers into those colonies from other parts of her Majesty's dominions must have attracted the attention of her Majesty's Government years back. Ile observed in these papers a statement of teleie trarsactions so far back as Ie 34 ; that was four years ago. With reference to the removal of a certain number of lal curers into the Mauritius he c fait give her Mee sty's (ie_ vemment credit for vigilence or attention on this subject ; for, in pc, lit of fact, no notice was taken of it for a considerable period after the occurrence. It was a moat reinerkaLle fact, that it was brought under the consideration of one of her Majesty's Ministers, not in that House, but in the other, by Mr. Gladstone, in a letter to the night Hnn. Gentleman at the head of the Board of Control ; and that the Ripht lion. Gentleman seemed to answer as if nes interference on the part of the Government was necessary, as if it was a mere wetter of course. He ventured to state that if the Right Hon. Getitlem.n tied only taken the trouble V conversing with any one person cermscted with the East Indies, or any person who was an inhabitent of that ccentry, that person would have to:d lion thet it was absolutely impossible that such arrangements could be made be tween tic lower class of inhabitants in that country and Europeans without the strict superieteeeence of Government, in every part of the trensaction, from the beginning to the conclu sion. —(Hear, hear, hear.) Notwithstanding the respectability of the merchants connected with these trans .ctions in this country, and that of those who acted under their aetho city in Calcutta, yet the direction of Leese negociations often fell into the hands of a lower class of persons, crimps and others, both &no peen as well as native, whose conduct was so bad as to justify any de scription which might be given of it. There was enough in the descrip tion of tares - transactions to show an absolute necessity for active vigi lance on the part of the Government with respect to their whole course. Under these circumstances, he certainly lamented that this mode of hiring labourers should have gone on so long without attracting the at tention of the Government presiding over the affairs of the East Indies; that up to May, 1837, no law was passed on the subject, and that even then the law which was enacted should have been one which he could not help characterising, in the language of the Noble and Learned Lord . eneen. fee a. ',tinny inadequate to tee purpose s for which it wa eeeneeil. ) He c rtainly ten most strongly the truth of all which hail been stated to their Lordships by the Noble Secretary tor the Colorer, in respect to the importance of the West lndia colonies to this country, as well as the importance of the crisis which was approaching, net only in relation to the planters and proprie tors, lint also with reference to the cultivators of that part of her Majesty's dominions. He trusted that the future lot of the negroes weuld be happier than the life which they haul led up to this moment ; but thet, in his opinion, depended entirely on their becoming hereafter a lalxiurious people —(Hean) He fully appreciated the importance of the crisis which was approaching during the next seven years. From th e document before them, he concluded that the influence of those labourers who were brought from Bengal had a great effect in the Island of Mauritius. That effect was produced not only on their fellow. labourers, the apprenticed negroes, but on the minds of the planters themselves, who felt more confidence in the prospect of deriving some ads antage from the labour of the apprenticed negro, when the period arrived for setting him entirely at liberty. He confesseed this state of things in the Mauritius was satisfactory to his mind, and he wished it were possible to extend the same advantages to the other Colonies of the western world. lie saw an absolute necessity for taking more precau tions than had been hitherto observed, in order to protect the interest, the health, and lives of those who should embark in the speculation. The Noble and Learned Lord (Lord Brougham) hod contended that it would be a hardship to the negro to introduce Into these Colonies labourers who would work fur twopence a.day. But it was probable that the expense coui.! not be estimated at lees then two shillings a.day, taking into consideration the expense of transport from Bengal to Guiana and back again within the five years—a rate of pay which would not offer a very dangeroes competition to the resident negroes on the islands. But even if it did otTer a serious competition to them, be must say that, considering the means of providing subsistence which would be open to the negroes on the expiration of their apprenticeship, it would be desirable to introduce new hands at a rate even under 25., nay, even at the smallest rate which the Noble and Learned Lord had stated. With respect, however, to the ease of the native Indians, he must confess that he should never be satisfied to see the new system continued unless the very strongest security were provided to insure the performance of the bargains of those who engaged them, and for the comfortable removal of the inhabitants of Bengal so engaged to the colonies in the West Indies, and from thence back again to their homes. He had prepared the heads of what he considered would be reasonable alterations in the Bengal Order in Council, which, with the permission of their Lordships, he would read to the House, to it was not his wish to put an end to the present system if the law could be sufficiently improved, The Noble Duke then read from a written paper in his hand a statement, of which the following are the heads That whenever an application was made to the Governor-General for the embarkation of blank (which he proposed to fill up with ten) natives, an officer should be named who should superintend the bar gains matte by them with their employers, the preparations made for the voyage sod for their embarkation, and who should take care that no man should make a bargain which he did not thoroughly under. stand, or who had nue undergone medical inspection ; and who should, moreover, see that not more of either sex were so engaged than in the the proportion fixed by trtie regulation. That the bargain should specify that the parties shouee embark—the probable length of the voyage, the nature of the food which was to be provided fur thetn, the length of time for which their services should en. dure, the nature of their employment, the number of days in each week and of hours in each day during wNch they would have to labour : and other particulars relative to t: Se quantity of remuneration in the shape of food, specifying quality as well as quantity, money, clothing, &c ; and, filially, at the end of the period agreed upon the parties engaged should be sent back to the place from whence they were embarked, with the same care as to their food and accommodation during the voyage. The same °facer would have to see that the vessel was seaworthy and duly equipped for the voyage, and that the decks were such as to afford comfort and healthy accommodation to the numner it was intended to carry ; that there was the requisite quantity of water and provisions on board of the specified quality. The officer was, blither, to superintend the ere_ barkation of the natives engaged, and after that to embark with them, ir, order to attend to the regularity or their treatment and conduct dur ing the voyage; atter which he was to see to the strict execution of the bargains made with them, to be their interpreter to the Ma gistrate or Coveraor in the island in which they were engaged, and, on the other hand, to see teat they did justice to their employers." The Noble Duke concluded by declaring that, if precautions of this kind were taken, he should have no hoseietion in acquiescing in the cone euance of the present system. Viscount MELBOURNE commenced by observing that the Noble and Learned Lord who had opened this debate hel done so in one of the most splendid orations which he had ever heard the Noble end Learned Lord deliver throughout the whole course of his increasing 2nd im. proving eloquence. The Noble and Learned Lord had drawn laic sly upon all his stores of imagery, and upon his mighty and acknowledged powers—he had admitted almost every possible topic to bear upon the subject—lie had applied the maxims of the poet and of religion, and he had finally described the state otitis own mind on the subject of this Order in Council, which the Noble awl Learned Lord declared would not permit him to rest in bed at night, fancying that he heard the voices of those great men with whom he had acted in this cause chiding him for h:s delay in opposing his utmost efforts against this Order in Council, which they alleged would undo all that they had been endeavour ing to accomplish in the cause of humanity. No doubt the Noble and Learned Lord had truly described his feelings on this subject; doubt less he had been excited in the manner he had depicted ; but he (Viscount Melbourne) would beg leave seriously to warn their Lordships ttat a person who was labouring under such strong and excited feelings avae not a safe guide for their Lordships to follow in a matter of so ex. tremele delicate and important a nature. With respect to the subject of the Slave.trade, if ever the subject required calm consideration, he thought that at the presect moment that calmness and dispassionatene s of deliberation was peculiarly wanted. He (Viscount Melbourne) had always supported every measure which tended to discountenance the Slave-trade, but at the same time he felt that in the present stage of the operation of the Act of Emancipation the greatest caution and deliberation were required. He could not disguise from him, self the fact that in this measure they were toying a great experiment. The Noble and Learned Lord, drawing largely upon his powers of intellect, bud given their Lordships a very full and clear account of the origin and history of the African Slave-trade. The Govern ment and the country wished to do away with that trade altogether, but let their Lordships take care lest in any steps they might adopt they frustrated the very objects which they had in view. It was in vain to put forth powerful appeals teeming with eloquence, founded upon the finest doctrines of religion and morality, when the slave trade still lived, aril was perpetually rising up and flourishing in spite of all the practical force and energies of the country which were exerted to eradicate it. It was to these practical means, in his opinion, that their Lordships should look for the final destruction of the system, and not merely to the enlisting of the feelings of mankind against the cruelties of the slave trade, fur if they stopped here they would never be safe in what they had already done. He owned that the speech of the Noble and Learned Lord comprised matters worthy of very serious consideration, but what was the state of the case ? On the one hand they had to contend against the I rinciple of slavery, constantly recurring and always likely to re cur, ever struggling into life and activity, and on the other band, they had to guard against the evils ard dangers which might attend upon the practice of bringing people from one country to iebour and settle in another; that they should not be deceived by their employere, nor betrayed into contracts which they did not intend to undertake. The Noble and Learned Lord had spoken of the people of this country as compared with the natives of the West and East In dies, yet eure'y the Noble and Learned Lord must recollect how even the people of this enlightened couhtry had occasionally been deceived ; how in owe ease, for instance, they had been invited to emigrate to a land where they would require to be provided with nothing else than Wilk-pails to milk the cows, who were running about time fields with their udders distended and lowing for somebody to come and milk them. —(I - L ar, hear, hear, anal a tartish.) On the one hand, therefore, they would have to protect the natives of India in the constitutional right which they enjoyed long before the issuing of this Order in Council to hire their labour where they please, ; aud, on the other hand, they would have to take came that these peo ple were not betrayed into a state of servitude very little different from alavery. He thought that to attempt to prevent persons from en joy ieg their constitutional right of engaging to g o from one country to another fir the purpose of seising their labour would he 2 course much more justly open to animadversion than to attempt to proveee limper regulations by which such regulations should be mailitained. bolt-- posing the Order in Council of the lath July were rescinded, all that would arise out of it would be this, that persons from India and other parts might still contract to go to Guiana, though only for three years, whilst by the Order in Council they might engage themselves for Ave years. But for whatever period they might engage themselves the principle would still be the same. People had a right to make any c ,ntract unless prevented by the laws of the country wider which they lived. And though it should turn out that labour brought from India might be too expensive for the employer, still the whole question was kit open, whether or not it was proper that people should be brought from one country to another for the purpose of labour; and if their Lordahips were disposed to take all contracts of this kind under their especial keeping and protection, it would open a very large field, which he for one did not think it would be advisable for them to enter upon. With regard to the question immediately before the Howe, he (Viscount Melbourne) begged leave to assure the Noble Duke opposite that the best attention of her Majesty's Government shout,. be ;said to the alterations which he had thrown out; aud that he and his colleagues had no other desire or intention than to make the c regulations as good and as perfect as possible. Ile understood the Noble Duke to say, that he did not wish to put an end to the plan which had been adopted, or to prevent these persons being brought to eu:tivate these islands ; and he could assure the Noble Duke in return that :tie most careful attention of her Majesty's Government would lie paid, in Order to render the condition of these people as safe and as little inconvenieiSt as possible. Lord ELLZNBOROUGH was not at all satisfied with what had been said by th e eeeble Vicount opposite. He had great respect for the Governor-Gen. of India, but he regretted the course which he had taken on the present occaaion, iu .'delegating to the Law Commission a matter which was one purely for practical men, and not for acientl fie lawyers, to determine, ills conviction Wlt, that the system adopted I:7 the Noble Baron opposite would tend to re-establish the slave trade, and from the connection which it was now his (Lord Ellenhorongh's) good fortune to have with India, he felt peculiarly called upon to declare that he could never consent to visit this country, which had always been dutiful, obedient, and grateful towards us, with the miseries from which we had relieved others.—(Cheers.) Lord BROUGHAat said that the masterly speech which had just been delivered by the Noble Lord opposite was eminently a dapted to the great occasion on which their L or d s hi ps ' attention was engaged; and therefor, that, whilst h 3 tendered the Noble Lon`, his cordial thanks for all that he had said, I.e felt it relieved him in great measure from the ne cessity of entering upon a reply. There were one ov two things cape. dally which fell from the Noble Duke opposite, for whom he enter tained the most unqualified respect, and whose authority, as a practical statesman, went as far with him (Lord Brougham) as any one's, from which it appeared that he had been misunderstood by the Noble Duke, with whom he was accordingly desirous of setting himself right. The p,rd le Duke was entirely mis!al:en in saying that his (Lord . . Brougham's) argument was priacipalty against the Order in Coun cil; and lie was now led to express his grew, his tirilmnded ado ni,liment at the speech of the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Co loni:•s. His surprise was extreme at hearing his mode of arguing the question—as if there was no Madras on the map of Asia, no Bombay, no Ceylon, or as if there was no Pondicherry, no coast of Africa, for not one word had been said by him relative to either of them. Their taking this great law—which did nothing, which aff.:cted to do little and actually did less, which gave no protection at all—this absurd and wholly useless law, which was passed by his Noble Relative in Council, if a Council could be said to exist, this law which had called f,rth so many panegyrics, as if it operated on all the trade between the East Indies and Guiana, which was facilitate! and strengthenel by the Older in Council of the 12th of July, how stood the real facts ? let the suggcsstion of the Noble Duke be adopted, let his system—he thought he was rather complimentary in calling it by that name, for he did not give so much admiration to this ,legislative effort of his as he had hitherto. and he believed justly, given to every one of his proceed_ ings either as a statesman or a soldier—but supposing this system per fect, and supposing his Noble Relative, Lord Auckland, had adopted it in a way that gave it the same effect as a law, as in the proposal of the Noble Duke, would it apply to all places ? The Duke of WELLINGTON—AII are included. Lord BROUGHAM—Not Pondicherry, for what could be done with the coast of Africa—all was swept in by the enveloping power o this Order in Council? The Order could not stand on the vt ry ground on which it had bet n defended, because the Nobie Lord admitted that it could never do without the Indian law, and on that ground he (Lord Brougham) was answered that Pondicherry, and above all the eastern coast cf Africa, from the Cape to the Red Sea, were included. But was there anything in the Order of Lord Auckland which could be supposed to extend to all the settlements on that coast—for even if the wits of men were extended to the uttermo,t in making a code ofregulatirrns, no means existed by which Pondicherry or any of the other settlements could be governed, and neither this House, nor any other legiflative body, had the means of legislating for the barbarous tribes along the eastern coast of the continent of Africa, and yet every inch of that coast was . . . _ swept by the influence of that Order. To this no answer had been given ; he had in vain waited for the speech of the Noble Secretary for any answer. The door had not been closed against the African slave_ trade ; it had been left ajar ; fur he called it leaving it ajar when the means were afforded by which, by fraud, the trade might be carried on. A great deal had been said by the Noble Duke with regard to the value of the West Indian colonies, and of the necessity of keeping up the traffic, and it was on this point that the Noble Duke had misunderstood his resolution. He defied him to find in it any opinion expressed en the system proposed of taking out labour from this country ; and why did he say so ? because he purposely guarded against asking the House, so to commit himself. He was not prepared to go along with those out of doors who by some were called fanatics, and whose opinions were certainly rather strong on the subject, but, at the same time, all he would say was, that he differed from them in opinion ; he was an advocate for supporting colonial establishments to a certain extent, for he thought that to a certain extent they were highly useful to commerce, as well as to receive some of the surplus population of the mother country; but where the colonies had reached that state in which they could without assistance support themselves in their own position, as well as from the attacks of foreign powers, when they could walk alone, then it became quite another question whether they should be continued as attached to the old country or not. So long as it was the common interest of both countries that the connection should con tinue, so long should the alliance he kept up. But although this opinion might apply to the continental colonies of Great Britain, such as those of North America, of Canada, New Brunswick, and New. foundland, as to the West India islands he had before argued against, or rather with, his Noble Friend Lord Ashburton, who was not in his place, that there was a great difference, for the West Indies stood in a position very different from that of the conti nental colonies ; and he was disposed to hold that in a military sense, with a view to the power of the nation, their possession was a valuable part of its political force. If it should chance that the negroes did not fulfil the hopes which this House entertained, and that they should not fall generally into a state of industrious free labourers from that of industrious apprentices, he must say that he thought the sugges tion of the Noble Duke would have little effect; he thought that there would be little hope of changing the positions and feelings of a popula tion of eight hundred thousand by the proposed introduction of labourers from other places ; that there would be little chance of creating this i change by the sprinkling the dust of Asia over the Islands. He did not choose to see the traffic in human beings encouraged in any way, even though it should be called the free circulation of labour. —( Hear, hear, hear.) He had heard political economy used in many ways. He had heard it employed in favour of State lotteries ; and he had heard the principle advocated, that every man had the best right to dispose of that which was his own, and to make the most of his capital ; and he had even heard it used on the Continent to defend the system which had been established for the support of the houses of a certain description ; but he must confess that he had never heard it brought forward as an argument in favour of such a system as that of free circulation of labour which was proposed. The system was un natural and infinitely liable to abuse. Then, with regard to the ob servations of the Noble Duke, and to the suggestions which he had thrown cut, what did the Noble Duke say ? " Oh ! if you will not adopt the suggestions which I make I will vote against the motion." And then what was the answer ? Why, the Noble Viscount at the head of the Administration at once got up and said, " Oh, yes, I will take the matter into my consideration."—(Hear, hear.) He said he would take it into his consideration. No doubt he would, and so would he (Lord Brougham) ; but although he might take it into consideration, he might think as little of it as he did.—(A laugh.) What said the Noble Viscount ? He would take it into his consideration. Oh, yes! s'avisera—(A laugh)—but the effect of his compliance seemed to be much more (to use the phrase of a certain witness on a remarkable occasion) " No, than yes." Wherefore, as the Noble Duke did not succeed in catching the Noble Viscount, no more did the Noble Viscount succeed in catching toe Noble Duke. — (A laugh.) it was said there was a difference between the new traffic and the old one; that by the former system they were to be brought into a country of slaves, whereas now they were carried into a country of freemen. But there was this distinction, that Mr. Barron's proposition was to bring them free into a country of slaves, where they were to be free themselves, while the new plan was to take them into a country of quasi slaves, of indentured appren. tires, where they themselves were to be indentured apprentices. In this the superiority of the present plan over Mr. Barron's consisted. But the Noble Viscount had said that the interests of the parties must be looked to.—(Hear.) He had always declared it to be his belief, and not in deference to the Right Rev. Prelates, who had always taken the same view which he had relating to the Slave-trade from the beginning of the 1 eontroversy, since which time they had not voted for any proposition in favour of the continuance of the traffic, but it was matter of history, of civil as v.ell as sacred history, that it was the mild and benignant influ ence of the Gewoel of Christ which had tended to put down slavery, in opposition to all interest of a general or personal nature which might have existed, and that all the interest in the world would not have availed in producing such an end,had they lived in the ages of heathenism. He had always considered the eradication of slavery from the world as among the greatest blessings which Christianity had conferred on man, and it was an object which had been attained not only by i s influence, but directly. But even supposing that this was not so, the continuance of slavery ought not to depend upon interest ; and it did not. It de pended on an Act of Parliament, by which, on the let of August, 1840—and, he hoped, on the Ist of August, 1836—it would be for ever stopped. Then, what became of the argument ? He would say that it was absurd to say that interest must be depended upon to show whether slavery would be revived He said that it would riot revive; but if he were told that the revival of slavery must depend on such such a contingency, he was struck with fear ; for when were men to be depended upon who had cunning crimps to support their plans, and ven il coadjutors at the Mauritius and at Monte Video? (where the governor was bribed with 10,0001. to allow 2,000 slaves to be introduced contrary to the treaty, and be used the same argument, or an argument clothed in the very same words, with those which had now been used.) Such men, with such assistants, would be too much for the innocent People of the Rest, or of the coast of Africa, and therefore the revival of the Slave-trade was not so remote a possibility as the revival of slavery in the Neat Indies. But then it was said that if it were re vived the country should wait fur some other Wilberforce, or some other Government different from the present, who should rise up and over throw all difficulties, and, notwithstanding all opposition, should by one act of virtue at once extirpate the Slave-trade. But he answered, if it so pleased the House, that he had rather that it should not have the opportunity of reviving ; and that the chance of thus putting it down after its revival should not be afforded, he would not wait until tee upas.tree had been firmly planted before he ealled for the hatchet to cut it down. He begged, in conclusion, to tender his humble and hearty thanks to the House for the patient attention with which they had heard the observations which he had to offer, but, at the same time, he had felt himself bound to enter fully into the subject, conceiving it to be one of the most important duties which he could have to per. form —(Hear, hear.) Lord LYNDHURST proposed to give his vote in favour of the Noble and Learned Lord's motion. The Duke of WELLINGTON was quite satisfied that when the Noble Viscount stated that it was his intention to take his suggestion into consideration, it was his intention to do so with a view to its being ultimately carried into offect—(Hear, hear]—in a way which would be satisfactory both to him and the House, and on the principle which he had recommended. He thought that it would not be advisa ble to go to a division on the motion of the Noble and Learned Lord as it stood, and he should therefore move the previous question. Lord FITZGERALD was anxious, before the House divided, to know from the Noble Viscount opposite if he adopted the advice of the Noble Duke, and intended to art upon it in the spirit in which it had been given. It would lie extremely painful for him, as well as for seve ral Noble Lords near him, nut to vote for the aniendinent of the Noble Duke ; but unless the Niitile Viscount asserted that he received and adopted the recommendation of the Noble Duke in the sense in which it was given, a sense of duty would compel him to vote with the Noble and Learned Lord. • Viscount MELBOURNE replied that of course when he adopted the advice of the Noble Duke he assented entirely to the advice so given. Ile had already stated on behalf of himself and colleagues that thee would take the advice of the Nob'e Duke into their serious considera tion in a spirit of sincerity, not merely because it was the course of proceeding recommended by the Noble Duke, but because he believed that it was the plan, if adhered to and persevered in, the best calcula ted to guard against all the evils which had been pointed out to them. Lord BROUGHAM trusted that he should al,o be excused asking the Noble Viscount a question. Supposing the Noble Duke's plan to be adopted, what was there in it to prevent Africans from being removed from Pondicherry and Goa to the western colonial possessions? The House then divided— Contents for the previous question Non-cuntents l4 Majority The original motion was then negatived. Lord BROUGHAM wished to learn from the Noble Viscount, as the recess was approaching, when he intended to bring forward the measure which he had promised, and which he had been driven into from appre hension of being In a min way; and which he would have been in had not the Noble Duke come forward to his assistance. When did the Noble Viscount mean to bring in his Bill, and which had been adopted at the suggew ion of the Noble Duke opposite ? Viscount MELBOURNE could not at that moment tell when a mea sure on the sulei' et would be proposed ; but it would be brought forward with as little delay as possible, allowing for the importance of the sub ject. However anxious, therefore, he was to suit the convenience of the Noble and Learned Lord, he could not then give him a positive answer. Lord BROUGHAM wished to learn from the Noble Viscount whether it was likely that the Bill would be brought forward in the course of a week or a fortnight. If this were not done he thought that the Noble Duke would withdraw his support from the Noble Viscount, and leave him soul ). lh ( ee L v o ui r s d ucko ß eu Brou g ham ) would gira WELLINGTONiI e is introducedrnaj it y trusted fo a r s h soon his t th at a r a t i :tipotreasiß:ibi possible, e t , t i i ° r a n o ft . i — n e i r s ( e ( A d laugh.) 4ideration had been given to the subject. —Adjourned till Thursd tu ay eb . y"ti:l': 1 . ERRATUN-f.—ln an article on the conduct of ultra- Radicals, which appeared in The Sun yesterday, for—" Duke of Cumberland that seemed more anxious to damage the Re form Bill than either Wetherell or Croker," read " Duke of Cumberland. Hunt seemed," Ace, ; and for—" Mr. Roe buck is as good a resemblance," reAd as giNd 4 _Republican." THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 183 IN FAVOUR. RQUIsr.S. Chin icarcle EARLS. Chre Devon liatumby Ylokerville Lord Chancellor DUKES. 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ONE of the PENINSULAR STEAM NAVI GATION VESSELS will start from from Falmouth en MONDAY, 12th Mareh. Further particulars may be obtained on application at the Penin ular Steam Navigation Offices, 51, St. Mary Axe. WILLCOX and ANDERS')N, Managers. CL UB CHANIB E It S , 15, REGENT-STREET, BANKEns.—Messrs. Wright and Co., 6, Henrietta-street, Covent- garden. Atte HlTECT.—Decimus Burton, Esq., Spring-gardens. SoLicyrous.—Messrs. Richardson and Pike, :IS, Golden-square. 110 Noma Ry Sic META RT.—Edward Hastings, Esq. Trustees and Committee to be nominated by the Shareholders. Temporary Office, 6, Waterloo-place. The great scarcity of Chambers for Residence in the immediate vicinity of the Club Houses has long been complained of, and nu merous plans have been proposed for the erection of buildings adapted for that purpose, all of which have been abandoned, in con sequence of the extreme difficulty of obtaining eligible Sites. This de"sirable object has, however, been, in a great measure, ef fected for this purpose by the purchase, at about one-half the origi nal cost, of the splendid residence of the late Mr. Blicke, situated on the West Side of Regent-street, having a frontage of 78 feet, be tween the two leading thoroughfares of Piccadilly and Pall-mall, and in the immediate neighbourhood of the principal Clubs. The mansion is capable of being converted into elegant separate apartments, of various degrees of accommodation, and will yield an immediate return for the capital invested, upon security of un doubted and increasing value ; while additional Chambers will be speedily erected over the extensive premises in the rear, each room having a recess for a bed, in the continental style. The Proprietors of the greatest number of Shares to have a prio rity of choice in the selection of the rooms, their occupation to be subject to such regulations as the Committee may deem necessary for the well-being of the Establishment. The Albany, in Piccadilly, affords a safe criterion of the profits likely to be derived from the erection of Suits of Chambers, adapted to the wants and habits of the higher classes. The Apartments may be numbered and lettered, as in the Al bany ; a porter will be stationed in the Hall, day and night, and the general arrangements will be at least equal to those of anyioi milar Establishment. ..... The capital requisite to effect the purchase, and complete the additional buildings, is proposed to be raised by 5,000 Shares of 10/. in Certificates of not less than Five Shares each. Deposit 31., to be paid into the Bankers, with an instalment of equal amount on the 15th of June. An early day will be fixed for a Meeting of the Shareholders ; at which iMeeiing any Subscriber dissatisfied will the arrangements entered into may receive back his Deposits, without any deduction whatsoever. Plans and Estimates are preparing by the Architect, for the purpose of Doing submitted to the Shareholders for their approval ; and although sufficient data are not yet furnished to authorise the assumption of any exact amount of profit, there is every reason to anticipate a return of from 9 to 12 per cent. Applications for the unappropriated Shares, stating Residence and Profession, must be forwarded, post paid, either to Messrs. Richardson and Pike, Solicitors to the Association, 28, Golden square; or to Edward Hastings, Esq., Honorary Secretary, 6, Waterloo-place, on or before Tuesday, the 13th March. GREENWICH RAILWAY. An Advertisement having appeared in the Newspapers of yesterday, announcing that New Shares may be had on application at the Offices of the Company, the Directors beg to inform the public, that such Advertisement was inserted without their know ledge or sanction, the whole of the New Shares having been dis posed of as stated in their Advertisement, dated the 27th of Feb ruary last. By Order of the Board, J. Y. ALERMAN, Seeretisy. London Terminus, March 7, l NtB. CONTRACT FOR WORKS. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. READING DIVISION. Notice is hereby given, that the DIRECTORS will meet at their Office, No. 2, Princes-street, Bank, on Thu asiiat-, the •)2d of March, at Twelve o'clock, to receive TENDERS for the execu tion of the following WORKS : CONTRACT No. 3 R.—The excavation and formation of all the earthwork, and the construction of all bridges, culverts, and other brickwork and masonry, and the entire completion (except ing the laying the permanent rails) of that portion of the line ex tending from the bridge No. 1 i, now building over the river Thames at Gathampton, near Bassildon, Berks, to the bridge over the Thames at Moulsford, in the same county, being a distance of about three miles and 23 chains. CONTRACT No. 4 11.—The excavation and formation of all the earthwork, and the construction of all bridges, culverts, and other brickwork and masonry, and the entire completion (except ing the laying the permanent rails) of that portion of the line extending from Moulsford to a road near Vauxhall Farm, in the parish of Dudcot, County of Berks, being a distance of six miles and four chains. Plans and specifications of the above works may be seen, and printed forms of Tenders obtained, at the Company's Offices, in Princes -street, Bank, and at the Railway Office, at Streatley, in Berks, on and after MONDAY, the 26th inst. The Directors do not consider themselves bound to accept the lowest Tender, and they expect the parties to attend at the Office at One o'eloek on the 22d of March. CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, t THOS. OSLER, Secretaries. MAGNIFICENT ANCIENT FURNITURE and WORKS ART, entirely the property of a well-known Importer, and the whole just received from Paris. MESSRS. OXENHAM and SON have the honour to announce they will SELL by AUCTION, at their spacious Rooms, 353, Oxford-street, on Tit tr RS nay - , March 8, and Two following Days, at Twelve, A VERY SPLENDID AND HIGHLY INTERESTING IM PORTATION of ANCIENT DECORATIVE PROPERTY, collected throughout the Continent with considerable taste, and of which the following will be found most conspicuous : A SUPERB STATE SUITE FROM THE PALACE OF MARLY, in the richest style of Louis XIV., consisting of a canopied bedstead, with six chairs, two fauteuils, and a duchesse ensuite ; SUMPTUOUS MOSAIC SEVRES ANDBOULE CABINETS, decorated with the richest bronze d'or, also eommodos, secretairee, and other salon objects, by De Reimer and Boule. OLD 'ITALIAN BRONZES AND SCULPTURES, chiefly of the cabinet size, including many unquestionable works of the real old Florentine school, among which are some superbly mounted on pedestals of vieux boule ; also, OLD ROYAL SEVRES PORCELAINS , in turquoise and bleu du ciel colours, exquisitely pencilled in de bonnaire subjects, Beauvais tapestry of great beauty, boulo clocks, &c. ; about 100 carved old French picture frames, to gether with A MATCHLESS ASSORTMENT OF ANCIENT OAK CARVINGS, principally of the periods of Francis the First, Henri Quatre, and Louis the Fourteenth, the whole eminently deserving the at tention of the admirers of the olden times To be ( viers. each), edtw two days be had ysanteact theeden ro ta o n m d. s. mernings of sale by eat HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. °ruing TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Black Diamond," with a number of other communications concerning the Coal Monopoly, shall appear in due season. We must solicit the forbearance of all our correspondents on the subject till the debate on Sir W. Molesworth's motion is at an end. • that the Noble Lord acted spiritedly, and cheered him when he announced the determin ktion of the Govern ment. Mr. HALL made a short and able speech. Lord SANDON, after a rambling speech, moved an amend ment, which occupies half a page of the Votes, and is care fully drawn up. There was no hesitation in producing it : he did not go to the table to write it ; he went down to the House with it in his pocket, us it had been agreed to by the Conservative leaders. The whole party, then, had coolly and deliberately adopted the plan, before the debate commenced, of attacking the Ministers, in the manner fol lowed out by the Noble Lord. Mr. LABOUCHERE replied to Lord SANDON in an effective speech, in which he suc ceeded in showing that the evils under which Canada laboured had been caused by the Tories, and that Lord GLENELG had very successfully averted far worse mischief than had actually ensued. His speech was felt to be so powerful, that the great Lord STANLEY took it on himself to reply to it, and made a regular slap-dash oration, which the Tory Journals speak of as a model of perfect eloquence. In our judgment, it wants, like most of the Noble Lord's speeches, one valuable qua lity—truth. Lord STANLEY is a pious Lord, and a prodi gious hater of all kinds of evasion, and gave the House to understand that the course adopted by the Tories, though Lord SANDON produced his amendment ready cut and dried, had been adopted consequent on Lord PALMERSTON'S speech. Noble Lords are just now very sensitive, and the privileges of the House are very great ; so we must leave the public accurately to characterise Lord STANLEY'S peculiar and perfect eloqu lice. Sir CHARLES GREY followed Lord STANLEY, and spoke in favour of the Ministers. lie is supposed to belong to the Tory party, but he was one of the Commissioners sent to Canada ; and we regard his testimony in favour of the Ministers as of far more weight than all the vituperation of political opponents, eager to supersede them in office at any expense of public welfare. Unfortunately. Sir CHARLES GREY'S speech, which is said to have been an effective one, was not heard in every part of the House, and the Ministers lost the benefit of his defence, while the better lungs of Lord STANLEY al lowed no part of his attack to be lost. On Sir CHARLES GREY sitting down, the debate was adjourned. There are only two points to which we shall now call public attention. The first is the conduct of the Tories. Why, we ask, did they, in the month of January, scarcely six weeks ago, when they had before them all the evidence which they now possess of the weakness of the Colonial Go vernment, for since that period its conduct has been eminently successful, and the rebellion in Canada which was then raging has been completely suppressed—why, we ask, did they at the latter end of January unanimously agree to place in the hands of the Ministers a dictatorial power as to Canada, and on the 6th of March move a resolution that " the necessity of suppressing rebellion by force of arms and of suspending the Constitutional Government of Lower Canada, are in a great degree attributable to the want of foresight and energy on the part of her Majesty's confidential servants, and to the ambiguous, dilatory, and irresolute course which they have pursued in respect to the affairs of Canada since their appointment to office ?" The Tories knew all this in January as well as in March, and yet they then consented to place most extraordinary power in the hands of Ministers, whom they now ask the House of Commons to brand as incapable ; Why are the Tories guilty of this factious in consistency ? The answer is plain. Their head is now moved by the tail. Their ♦ictory over Mr. O'CoNxxee has inspired them with the most greedy hopes, and they refuse any longer to obey their chief, unless he can glut them with the ,spoils of office. So factious are they be come, that they will rather condemn in March their own proceedings in January, than wait one moment longer to gratify their hunger for office. The public will know what opinion to form of those who would risk the public welfare for such an object. The only good we can possibly anticipate from Sir W. MOLES WORTH'S motion, is the thus unmasking the Tories, who, as Mr. HALL last night justly observed in his useful speech, were ten times more to be condemned than the Ministers. The great vices of which the Ministers were accused, is vacillation, irresolution and doing nothing. The House of Commons has over them a great advantage. It judges after the event, while they had to act while it was in progress. Now, with all deference to Lord STAN LEY and Sir ROBERT PEEL, and the rest of the Tories, who hare lived only to witness year after year, and day after day, the defeat of their best-laid schemes of policy, we must observe that they of all men should not be too positive and too overweeningly presuming. The political world partakes at present of the quali ties of the physical world, and is moving on with rail road speed. We have lived through ages of political expe rience since the peace, and particularly since 1830. But when statesmen have seen their wisest plans set at nought, are they never to learn, and to be as ignorantly presumptu ous at the end of time as at its commencement? Let us take as an illustration of their failure, the Catholic Eman cipation Act. 'We are ready to prove, that unless it had been passed, the country would have been the prey of a bloody revolution. But has it answered the expectations of its authors ? Have the iron-handed Duke of WELLINGTON mowing down all men to one flat uniformity, orthe supple Baro net whom he made his instrument,been more successful as po liticians than Lord GLENELG ? They have not, and Lord STANLEY knows, whatever might have been their intention, that the indispensable concessions to Ireland of 1829, only made more concessions necessary in 1832. Now with these facts staring the Tories in the face, it is something like the uttermost folly in them to accuse other Statesmen of vacil lation who have not their blind presumption, But Lord GLENELG, in fact, has been eminently successful. In 1833 and 1834, when Lord STANLEY was in office, the bulk of the population, both in Upper and Lower Canada, was in a state of discontent and threatened insurrection. By Lord GLENELG'S conduct the great bulk was reconciled to the Government—almost all the influential men sided with it, and left the few desperate wretches who could not be con verted by his mildness and forbearance, to strand themselves by their own rash rebellion. If any body should be accused it is Lord STANLEY, who, by his vigour was, in fact, the real author of that general discontent which Lord GLENELG was fortunately able to lessen, and limit entirely to a few unsuccessful demagogues. The Christian world is deeply indebted to Lord BaouctrAm for his untiring zeal in the sacred cause of Negro Emancipation ; and among his Lordship's most suc cessful efforts to effect so humane an object, we class his motion in the House of Lords last night, condemnatory of the Order in Council which legalizes the importation of apprenticed labourers from India to Guiana. Nothwith standing the nominal rejection of the Noble Lord's amend ment by a majority of their Lordships, it is manifest from the tenor of the debate—from the humiliating concessions made by the Government—from the substance of the compact into which its Chief entered with the Duke of WELLINGTON, before that majority could be organ ized—that the Noble and Learned Lord virtually obtained a complete triumph. His Lordship's motion, though nominally rejected, was, in fact, adopted by Lords MELBOURNE and GLENELG, when they pledged them selves to render the Order in Council virtually a dead let ter—for such it will be from the moment the Duke of WELLINGTON'S plan for the importation of free labour is adopted. As this Order never appeared in the Gazette and was unknown to nine-tenths of the people of England until Lord BROUGHAM called attention to it, we may be rendering a service to our readers to give the substance of it in a few words :—ln 1836 the Legislature of Guiana passed a law permitting the planters to import labourers from any country upon condition of their being compelled to serve a seven years' apprenticeship by way of indemnity for the cost of their importation. This law was not approved of by t h e Home Government ; but, after long explanations and discussions, an Order in Council was issued in the summer of the following year, granting the right of importing la bourers from any co un t r y save Af r i ca ; an d restr i ct i ng the a pprenticeship to five years instead of seven. All the w orld must see that this was virtually a revival of the Slave Trade in a mitigated form. Vessels were fitted out for this horrid traffic, and to lull the suspicions of the Slave Emancipationists, India was selected instead o f t h e African coast, for the scene of atrocities, till then unknown among the helpless Ilindoo race. Lord GLENLLG himself admitted that the so-called apprenticed labourers were kidnapped—that the bulk of them knew not where they were going —how they were to be worked—or in what way remunerated. Many of them fancied they were only to be absent a few weeks, and that they might return to their friends at any moment. They knew nothing of the sea —nothing of the habits, the language, or the designs of those who dragged them from their friends and country. Once on board they were treated as slavers have ever treated their wretched cargoes of unfortunate human b e i ngs ; and on landing the only consolation held out to them was that after five years of exile and toil, they would be at liberty to return to the land of their nati vity ! Imagine the agony of a crowd of poor, super stitious, ignorant, Hindoos thus thrown naked, desolate, and defenceless upon a foreign land, doomed to toil daily under a tropical sun, and without the power of making their sufferings known to their cruel task -masters. Ministers ma y talk as they will about free labour —this is slavery. In the eloquent speech with which Lord BROUGHAM introduced his motion, his Lordship alluded to a false and scandalous attack made upon him by a Minis terial Evening Contemporary, en the occasion of his well-remembered denunciation of the colonial policy of the Cabinet. This Journal had the effrontery to characterize the Noble and Learned Lord as one of those juggling friends-- - " Who never spoke before, But cried, I warned you,' when the event was o'er." Whereas it is notorious to every man in England, that the Noble and Learned Lord was the only friend of the LONDON : WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1838. The funds of the Tories being exhausted, they have given up the London Election contest, and this day the four sitting Members were declared duly elected. What will be the next fabrication, and the next boast of the Times and the Tories' Sir WILLIAM MOLESINORTII made his attack last night on the Colonial Minister. His speech was long, dull, and tiresome, correcting errors into which ho fondly presumes the public, who care nothing about his opinions, hare formed as to them—and condemning Lord GLENELO for not having been a great prophet, and for not having taken measures to meet all the evil which Sir W. MOLES WORTH fancies may exist now, and hereafter exist in every colony of the Empire. The Members of the House con versed instead of listening to Sir WlLLlma's oration, which will consign nobody to oblivion, now that it is published, Lut himself. Such an antagonist only makes the little vices he charges Lord GLENELG with, virtues by the contrast. Mr. LEADER seconded Sir WILLIAM. Lord PALMERSTON boldly met the motion by a decided negative, and made a speech which Sir WILLrAm MOLE3WoRTII will wish unread, and which we earnestly recommend to public perusal. Even his oppQneuts felt Ministry, in the Upper House, who had spoken of the danger et e it made its appearance—who bad foresren and foretold the event, when concealed in the womb of futurity from the hurried glances of the leaden eye of faction. With that clearness and extent of moral vision which distinguishes a great statesman from a pedlar in the details of legislation, Lord BROUGHAM saw, marked, and forewarned Ministers of the dangers to which their every error cx• posed them ; and it is, therefore, not a little surprising that any Journal should be found base enough to assert the contrary, in the teeth of Protests which are already become matters of history. But, after all, such calumnies can only prove injurious to those Rho circulate them ; and while the Journal in question is but the echo of certain official persons in Downing-street, the public will not be misled by anything it may promul gate with a view to diminish the national confidence in the pure patriotism, unsullied integrity, and extraordinary talents of Lord BROUGHAM. The Paris Journals of Monday have been received, with advices from Madrid of the 25th ult. Their contents are not of the slightest general or even local interest. By the arrival of the Liverpool steamer at Falmouth, from the Tagus, we have received adv ices from Lisbon to the 27th ult. The Liverpool sailed from Gibraltar on the 20th, Cadiz the 21st, Lisbon the 27th ult., and from Vigo on the Ist inst. At the latter port she found forty vessels waiting for a favourable change of weather, to cross the Oporto bar. She experienced a rough passage, and saw several vessels in a state of great distress. On the 19th ult. the Cortes voted by a majority of 49 against 32, that Ministers should be at liberty to treat with the Bank or any other mercantile association for a loan of 2,400 contos, to meet the immediate wants of the Exe cutive. Great doubts were entertained as to the success of this scheme. A project for establishing a maritime and commercial reciprocity system was likewise subnitted to the Cortes, but its full developement was postponed till the 9th inst. The following summary of the financial liability of Portugal, in the shape of debt, is taken from the private correspondence of a Morning Contemporary : From the statement mado by the Finance Minister at the conclusion of last year to the Cortes, the amount for which Portugal is in debt would appear as follows : Contos Revenue drawn in advance, from the let Jan., in bills upon the tobacco contract and Custom House Domestic debt funded Domestic debt, floating or unfunded B,OOO Arrears of annuities due to the infantando municipality and other corporations Titulog admissable in payment for national property and yet in circulation Extinct paper money yet unredeemed (about) Equal at the par of exchango to E11,13g,908 'l'o which add foreign debt X 21.658,08 7,040 1,415 2,500 39,584 The Electoral Law Project was debated in the Cortes on the 24th, when it was proposed to divide Portugal into twenty-four electoral districts, to return 112 Deputies and 52 Senators. Other projects of law, such as one for the prevention of emigration to the Brazils, were under con sideration ; but they were entirely local in their interest. On the 24th ult., and the day following, several vessels were much injured in the Tagus, owing to the prevalence of a violent gale of wind. Seven lighters were lost, and in Lisbon some houses were blown down, and others un roofed. The loss of property during the storm was very considerable. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) LONDON. The Coramittee met at eleven o'clock, and shortly afterwards Mr. TALBOT said that the petitioner, considering the immense ex pense which would be incurred, as well as the annoyance which would be caused, by a scrutiny, thought the most proper course was for him to retire, particularly after the decision to which the Committee had come yesterday. If he had persisted, however, he had not the slightest doubt but that his efforts would have been successful. Mr. Hautlsom saw no objection to the course proposed by his Learned Friend. All he sought for was the victory, and having gained that, he of course could require nothing more. The Cominittee.room was then cleared. On •ur re_admission, The CUAIRMAN said the Committee had come to the following reso lutions :-- Resolved—" That Sir Matthew Wood, Bart , James Patteson, Esq.. J. Crawford, Esq., and George Grote, Esq., are duly elected to serve in the present Parliament for the city of London." " That the petition of Ambrose More and others, electors of the city of London, against the said return, is neither frivolous nor vexatious." " That the petition of Joseph Tracers and others, in reference to the said return, is neither frivolous nor vexatious." NEWC ASTLE. UNDER- LY ME. ♦t the sitting of the Committee this morning, Mr. Tkl EbiSIC Ea addressed them on behalf of the sitting Member. He admitted, that if the evidence of the witnesses brought forward in sup port of the allegation of bribery was to be believed, the sitting Member must be unseated ; but he would bring forward most respectable wit nesses, who would convince the Committee that no credit could be given to such evidence. The examination of witnesses to rebut the testimony given by the other side was then proceeded with. BELFAST. This morning the Counsel for Lord Belfast attacked the votes of Mr. Dunbar. Two were objected to, but the Committee decktred them to IA good votes. YOUGHAL The scrutiny was this morning proceeded with, but nothing of im• portatiee had transpired up to the time of our going to press. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK. A Meeting took place this day, but on account of the length of the Debates in Parliament, we can only find room for the following abstract of the Profit and Loss. To-morrow we will give the whole particular& PROFIT AND LOSS. Dr. Payment of the Dividend now declared, of 51. per cent. upon the paid-up Capital of 597,255/. for one year £29,864 0 0 Balance of unappropriated profits 9,567 1I 2 • £39,431 11 2 Balance of unappropriated Profits, De-. eember 31, 1836 £7,027 0 6 By vote to the Directors at last Gene ral Meeting £4,527 0 Profits of the year 1837, after paying all the current expenses, and after making sufficient provision for all bad and doubtful ddbts £39,431 11 2 Balance brought down Fund arising from Premium on Share" LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEA MARCH 6.—Wind W., moderate.—Arrived, and proceeded for the River, the Amwell, Hesse, from Mauritius ; Fingalson, Primrose, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Ca'edonia, Bowden, from Taganrof ; Britannia, Pyne, from Sligo; Patriot, Martin, from St Andrews, New Brunswick ; James Cruickshank, and Matilda Luckie, Henneker, from Demerara; Lord Nelson, Griffiths, from Newport to Rotterdam. Came down from the River, and remain, the Arache, Fowler, fur Trieste; William Rogers, Crawford, for Greenock; Littteworth, Graham, for Bencoolen ; Effort, Orfcur, for Malta. PORTSMOUTH, MA RCN 6. Wind N. W. to W., fresh breezes and squally.—Arrived the Providence, Duke, from St. Michael's ; her Majesty's ship Athol, from Cork. Passed by the Abel Gower, Render. son, from Sydney; for London—sailed October 7. Sailed the Eleanor( Sophea, Ginge, for Antwerp, 6.—Arrived off, the Auguste and Alaline, Havannah, COWES, MARCO G.—Arrived the Ellen, Lyon, from St. Michael's. WATERFORD, MARCH 4.—Arrived the Amy, Coverel, from the Havanna ; Confidence, Angel, from Loudon; Regulator, Angel, ditto. WIG:IT, Maim. G.—Arrived off, the Mercurius, Jessie, Batavia. BRISTOL, Mellor G.—Arrived the William Barras, Norrie, from Calcutta. FALMOUTH, MARCH s.—Arrived the Niglv ingale Packet, from Vera Cruz, .ailed Jan. 2; Haeatinah 6th ult. ; Liverpool (steamer), from Gibraltar, left 20th ult. ; Cadiz, 21; Lisbon, 27. PLYMOUTH, MARCH s.—Arrived off', the Duke of Norfolk, St. Kitts. The Frederick, Binning, from St. Übe's, was assisted into Dundee, dismasted, bound to Lisbon. The Trevins, Green, of New Brunswick, was fallen in with 16th ult., in a disabled state, and four men put on board by the Nightingale Packet. The Isabella, from Sligo to Gloucester, was on shore at Killala. The Diligent, Hatton, from Maracaibo, put into Bermuda, with cons . derable damage, having been on the rock, bound to Liverpool. The Hypolite, Ferlay, from Halifax, put into Bermuda, leaky, and mus discharge, bound to Demerara. The Aurelia, Hutchinson, from Newcastle, lut into Bermuda, leAky, aid must discharge, bound to Philadelphia. DESTRUCTIVE GALE AT GIBRALTAR. Intelligence has been received in the City this morning by the arrival of the Mediterranean mail, that a severe and destructive gale had been experienced on the shores of the island of Gibraltar on the morning of the 11th and evening of the 12th ult. which had done much damage to the shipping• 'The following is a list of the vessels which were driven ashore dur. mg the storm : Between the Watering-place and the Spanish Fort San Felipe.— The Russian brig lately brought in by her Majesty's ship Orestes, and sold by order of the Admiralty Court; the French brig Africaine, Starafelli, with loss of foretopsail ; and the British bombard Claudine, with logs of bowsprit. Between the Watering-place and Landfort Bay.—The Spanish Po lacre brig Dolares, Cabanas master ; British brig Concordias, Blackalicr ; Portuguese schooner Lea; Xoaquim ; Sardinian brigantine Silfo, Satoria ; British ketch Maria, Navella ; Tuscan tartan, Madonna di Martinio, Bossa; Sardinian bombard San Guiseppe, Deninciza ; Spanish falucho San Lozano, Ara,gnes ; French brig Gustave, Demen ; Brit ish bark Three Brothers, Ferray. Off the Spanish Race Course.—The American brig Hecla, Whiting, master, and Temistocle, Focatta, are in 15 feet water, ()lithe old Mole- Besides the foregoing, the American brigs l izz and Susan was on shore off port St. Phillip on the 11th. The guards on the Neutral Ground, Bay. side, Landsport, and Old Mole, were doubled, to afford as much assistance as possible to the distressed mariners. The Captain of the port was unremitting in his exertions during the storm. No lives were reported to have been lost, though great anxiety had been enter tained for the safety of the line.of.battle ships and troop.ship Jupiter; they had, however, rode out the gale. ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF SCOT LAND. For the above reason we must also postpone this Report till to morrow. PRIVATE BUSINESS OF PARLIA MENT.-(TIIIS DAY.) (Mr. SHAW Del , l2lllF. in the Chair.) Taw Vale Hallway and Dock.—This being an adjourned case from yesterday, was taken first. The notices, plans, and sections, were proved. Middlesex County Court.—This was a petition for a Bill extending the jurisdiction of the Court from debts of 40s. to 101., and altering the process. As this Court is not constituted by an Act of Parliament, the Committee decided that the Standing Orders did not apply to it. Unopposed. Liverpool Court of Passage.—This was a petition for extending the jurisdiction of a Court of Requests in Liverpool, and also to erect an Observatory. Notices proved. Unopposed. Standing Orders com plied with. Blackheath, Bromley, &c. Small Debts Court.—A petition for en larged powers to former Acts. Unopposed. Standing Orders corn. plied with. South Australia Colonization Company.—The Committee decided that Standing Orders did not apply. Unopposed. Bristol and Exeter Railway.—This was a petition for a Bill to make a branch railway, and to extend the time of taking lands. Notices proved, except personal notices to landowners, &c. on the original tine. Plans and sections proved. Estimate, 3,3501. Unopposed.--(It was stated that 100,0001., in addition to the original subscription contract (which is less than the one-third they are empowered to borrow), would be sufficient to complete the original railway), Lower King's Ferry (Chester) Road.—Notices proved. Estimated expellees, 4,4801. Deposit not paid in the Bank, from a Bank Bill being improperly endorsed. Adjourned. MARKETS.--(THIS DAY CORN EXCHANGE. There are small arrivals of English Wheat and Oats, good of I3ar. ley and Flour, and a fair quantity of Oats from Ireland. The Wheat trade remains firm at Monday's prices, with little doing. Barley still sells heavily. Beans support their value. Peas are very dull. Oats maintain the terms last quoted. There is not much doing in Flour this week. ARRIVALS.; Wheat. Barley, hate. 1 Flour EnoEh 3,0701re. 6 ,1 1 10.irs 410 Ira 1 7,:.,1 0 ~/k, ____ Irish - 13,590 1 Foreign—_. I ---. _--- __-- LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 6. We continue to experience an extremely inanimate demand for Cot ton, at the quotations of Saturday last. The total transactions do not exceed 2,500 bags. The arrivals of Cotton during the present week, are very heavy, amounting to nearly 5,800 Bags. 2,095 American, 6d. to Sid. ; 200 Egyptian, Bd. to 9id. ; 200 Surat, 51 4 . d. to 51d. ; 25 Madras, 5 %d. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, MARCH 6. The supplies of all sorts of Grain, Flour, Oatmeal, &c., have been small since our last report. The canals are now in full operation, but only a small business was done in any article. In the interval between this day's market and the preceding one, owing to purchasers awaiting further supplies, which are expected to be large, as the wind is now blowing from the west, we bad a fair attendance of trade this morn. ing, but, for the cause assigned above, only a small portion of business was effected. Wheat, however, maintained our last quotations. Oats likewise were fully as dear, but Oatmeal suffered a depression in value at 6d. per 240 lbs. Flour, on a poor inquiry, barely realized tl:c. prices last quoted. TALLOW MARKET. The quotation of P.Y.C. to-day was 515., which is higher than has becil iinown for a long time. To arrive, the quotation is THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, 7'WELVE O'CLOCK. By an overland mall from India, we have advises from Bombay to the Gth of January, and from other parts to a late date. It appear s that the new Customs Act had been at length received by our Govern ment to be put into operation on the 15th of January, and that the necessary arrangements bad been left entirely to the Governor. T he system of Marine Police suggested by the Collector of Customs, it Was believed, would be carried into effect at the same time. It is to be hoped that in revising the draft of the Customs' Act, its provisions have been rendered less liable to censure than at its first publication. At Canton another Imperial edict had been issued, in which the departure of the gentlemen, with some changes in names, who were ordered to leave China some time ago, is again insisted upon. T he Emperor in the same document reproaches the Viceroy for sharing i° the profits of the Opium trade, and also the lower Mandarin; for eon" niving at the escap e o f smugg l ers. A scene is said to have hapPened between the Viceroy and Hoppo. The former, on the latter's pay ing him a visit, gravely reproached him wit's venality in sharing in the profits of the Opium trade, when the Hoppo, who had but in" made a seizure of an Opium-boat, retaliated by showing the Viceroy', passport under which that boat sailed. The Viceroy's reproaches im mediately, it is said, changed into supplications for secrtsy. The tic"' raey of this story was not vouched for, but the thing Was believed to be very possible. Stoppage of the Opium trade at Canton.—The great scarcity of money, and the slight prospect of improvement, together with t he heavy rate of interest which the advance was bearing, combined to induce this sale, which though sufficient will not cover the expe nses. There was not much opium coming forward. The Nightingale packet has arrived from Vera Cruz, bringing a freight of four hundred thousand dollars ; sailed on the 2d January ; Havannah flth February. Consols opened this morning at the same price they left off at yester day, 93 to 9311 for the Account, and for Money 921 93, with very little doing. Exchequ er Bill s, 62 64, premium; India Bon d s , W 2 premium ; Bank Stock shut; India Stock shut. The Foreign Market at pr esen t i s i nact i ve. Spanish, ~s 4' with. Coupons ; Portuguese, 2Si; Three per Cents., Isi 28/ 291 ; Colombian, 281 291 ; Dutch Two.and.a.Half per Cent'' , 521 53} ; Brazilian, 744 751. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock - - ---- -4nn " 3 per Cent. Red. ____ \ 3 per Cent. Con& 9-274 3 3 per Cent. — Ditto lied ••• -- New 3% per Cent 10 0%N% New 5 per Cent — Bank Long Annultiesto expire Jan. 5, ISM... — Oct. 10, 1859 — Jan. 5, 1460 l5 1-16 Jan. 5, 1&8) — April 5, NM — Jan. b, RM..... ....... ... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS A istnan ponds Belgian Bonds 10 3 14 1 atto Account Brazilian Bonds ... ........... Ditto Account 7 51 Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account — lhillian Bonds.-- ...... . Ditto Account — C duinbian Bonds — Ditto Account — Oluiribian Bonds, 1824 i Ditto Account '291414 li D tnish P.OhliS ... ... Ditto Account -- I Greek Bon's Ditto Bonds, 18:25 -- Ditto Account Mexican Bonds ' 5 per cent — Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. ... ...... Ditto Account Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIt DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK ladia Stoett Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock Old Annnitie.. New Ditto 9l 3 per Cent. Annuities. 17m... - Exch. Bills, .£ 1,000 62 64 tiro. Ditto.... ........ 62 (14 pin. Ditto Small • 62 64 out. Ditto Commercial Ditto Aavertista pm. Bank Stock for Account Indla Stock for Account Consols for Acconnt 9: I IS 3 Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account ....... 63 Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account Ditto New Ditto Account Ditto, 3 per cent.... Prussian 8andy...,., ........... Russian Bpinda, Ditto Accou - Ditto e ic ............. -- Spanish 11 - ,, nt i, .... ... Dit!O Acc0unt........... ••• 1)BU) Bonds, ISA • Ditto Account ^ French, 5 per cent. t --c(2. ----- 4 per cent.........•• • ---- t 3 per cen . ......... , ---- Exchange ..... .••••• ""*" Dutch, '23 per cent. ............ Ditto Account 1 Ditto, t• per cent Ditto Account __— DAY AT ONE OTLOCK• re . Prid. yer S ll3 Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (issued at 5/. pm.) 20 c:l),tto St. John del Rey 544 (I 1244 Birmingham and Glouceste r R a il way Company l5 Bristol and Exeter Railway C ompany to 10 54 i Commercial Blackwall R a il way C ompany 2 ~ Eastern Counties Railw a y 3 03,4 % a Great Western Railway C ompany - Brighton Railway Company 1 A 1 30$ " I.' rriN radon and Birmingh am ltailway Cony 90 i6P ' 4 Ditto Shares .6 5 Isl I ondon ai.d Greenwich :r a il way C ompany tol 4b 9 London and Southampton Railway Company.... 50 London and Southampton (New) Railway 5 271 4 9'4 London and Croydon R a il way C ompany 2 19 !? Ditto Scrip 5 I I No London Grand Junction Railway m,richester and Birmingham Railway 7 103 i I 1 Midland Counties Railway Company 2O -- Australasia Bank Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 COUP.SE UF EXCH, Am 3, erd im C.F. 12 5% Ditto, at sight It Aterdani 2U. 12 6 Antwerp... HAlnhurg. 51./1. 13 14 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Ditto 3 Ms. 2e 0 Marseilles. Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M 151 Peterslngli, ruble 3 Us. 10 Harlin Vienna, effective II 2 M. 10 12 Trieste ditto lO 14 Maiirhi 15 Cadiz.... ,„....... ........... 35 ,NGE YESTERDAY. 48 Gibraltar 52 Leghorn... Genoa = 6 15 Mi1an........... ......................• 36 Venice Naples Palermo .r oz. 1 16 _, Lisbon . per 53% Oporto 54 Hie Janeiro 204 Bahia 25 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork IN PRICE OF BULLION, PEII OZ' Portugal Gold, coin £3 14 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 34 arcelona Seville 34 __ign (iota, New Doubloons - New Dollars Silver. bare. standard 0 4 1154 HALF-PAST ON - E (pa6oc The Diarie do Goverwo of Lisbon, of the 22d of February', g iv ? s notice that on the let of March, an d on th e f o ll ow i ng d ays, w ill be Paid the interest on certain Bonds of th e N a ti ona l L oan D e b t f or the ti" half-year of 1837. the All the foreign news this morning is by f ar o f m i nor i mpor t anc e to debates which take place this evening in th e H ouse o f C omm ons. an which form the general topic of conversation in the City. Consols continue steady at 93 for the Account; Money, 9 2 74 , 98 ; There is not a feature in the Market worth o b servat i on. Excheque' Bills, 62 64 prem. ; India Bonds, 62 64 prem. ; Bank and India Stocks are shut. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active rather improved, 19'4 wl „ th Coupons; Portuguese Three per Cents., 19; Me x i can a l so b e tter, t2i to 301 ; Colombian, 291 ; Brazilian, 744 ; Dut c h T wo-a nd-a-Ha' per Cents., A good deal doing in the Shares this morning, and which have proved. London and Brighton, 4i prem.; Birmingham, Great Western, 28 prem. 71 prent, Commis for the Account. 93. THREE O'CLOCK- With the exception of place-hunters and the fierce going Aristocracy that sit behind the leader of the Opposition. and urge on the battle, we b e li eve t h e num b er that appro ve at the present policy of the ultra-Radicals and Tories is very small. We have heard from several quarters that the nior° moderate Tories, and particularly those engaged i n trade , would look upon a v i ctory over Ministers on such a quest i on as that to be decided t o - n i g h t, as a great national calamity. T his country is prospe rous , I re l an d never was more peaceful, th i ! alrairs of Canal s are i n a f a i r way to be settled amicably, a ncl they naturally a s k— w h y convu l se t h e whole empire for a laur mentary party triumph? T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Sze., 47,Cornhills London ( Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street), informs thePublie, that he off ers SILVER WA TCHES, on the celebrated PATENT LEVER CONSTRUCTION (the most accurate on which a watch can be made), for SIX GUINEAS EACH, with the latest im provements, i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes' capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamelled dial, and maintain ing power to continue going while winding up. N.B.—lf in Hunting Cases, Ws. 6d. extra.—Second - ha usi Watches purchased in exchange. On th e 2d March, at his house in Stafford-row, Buckingham gate, Michael Pope, Esq., after a short illness. .ondont Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of i‘ • 112, Strand, at The Slot Office, No. 11 0 . Strand, in the county f Aliddlesex.—\Veckliestiab March 7, 1838 ~..,..., 1t Zara + WITH WHICH ti THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED.